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presents of cotton and sheath-knives, and then followed a path 

 leading to the Dagmar through forest of a very open character. 

 A walk of half a mile brought us to the bank of the river, 

 here about 30 to 35 yards wide. There was very little current, 

 owing to a sandbar across the mouth, which the natives say 

 is dry at half-tide. The banks were jungle covered, and free 

 from mangroves. 



" Before leaving the village we bought some fowls, and a pair 

 of young monkeys, said to be only three or four months old. 

 They were imprisoned in a pig cage, and seemed half-starved, 

 and were certainly very frightened as they sat clinging con- 

 vulsively to each other. 



" There is clear water, 300 or 400 yards wide, before K6pen- 

 heat, with a reef on either side where the sea breaks heavily 

 at high tide, but the anchorage is not so good as at Kunyi 

 or Nyur." 



